We cover a lot of ground in today's podcast where we discuss our recent beehive adventure, discuss the challenges of fall gardening, and Trish shares her secrets about drying flowers. We are also having a contest in this week's podcast!

And I could smell my grandfather's bee smoker as soon as Dave mentioned it. Also enjoyed the segment about drying flowers, one of my favorites.

I tried the atp.com/contest; didn't work. Then I tried allthingsplants.com/contest, didn't work either and both take me straight to the podcast, but no entry place. I already have a stack of ATP shirts, so it wasn't like I expected to win, but I did want to add a number to your listener tally.

It's so interesting hearing about your bee hives and honey production, great job! I'm curious ... is Trish going to sell honey in her store? I've purchased your hand balm and it's wonderful; I've also bought some of your candles, do you use the beeswax in your candles too?

I went to [url=www.allthingsplants.com/contest]www.allthingsplants.com/contest[/url] and it works for me but I didn't enter because I don't want to be piggy; I have four ATP T-shirts already so I hope someone new wins one of the shirts!

plantladylin said:I'm listening to the podcast right now ... Great IntroductionTrish!

It's so interesting hearing about your bee hives and honey production, great job! I'm curious ... is Trish going to sell honey in her store? I've purchased your hand balm and it's wonderful; I've also bought some of your candles, do you use the beeswax in your candles too?

Lin,

Unfortunately, I can't sell honey. In order to sell, I would have to have our hives inspected and licenced, and we have no current plans to do that. Not to mention, we will be eating all the we produce until we get more hives!

The candles are made with soy way, actually.

We could make beeswax candles, but knowing the amount of effort it took Dave to get this block of wax, I don't think we're willing to! I'm sure there is equipment that would make short work of jobs like that, but we haven't grown into all of that yet.

NGA COO, Wife, Mom, and caretaker of 90 acres and all that dwell there.

I have a Flower Press that a friend gave me. She's a retired elementary school teacher and years ago her husband made a bunch of flower presses out of wood that they she stained and then decopauged flowers on the front board. She had one remaining flower press that she was going to throw out and asked me if I wanted it. I pressed a few blooms but some were the types of flowers that had too much moisture and they didn't work well at all. I pressed some Maidenhair fern that really did well. I have the problem too of wondering what to do with flowers after drying them! I thought about matting and framing a few but my attention span is so short anymore that I know I'll never get around to it.

Trish: I hadn't thought about licensing etc. regarding selling honey. There are hives at the little local botanical gardens where I volunteer one day a week and we sell honey there. My husband can't have biscuits without honey so we do go through honey quite quickly.

Your soy candles are great! I was just curious if you used beeswax for them too but it sounds like it would be a lot of effort to continually collect wax to make candles.